LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas—Arkansas regulators stood by their plan on Wednesday to ban an herbicide that farmers in several states say has drifted onto their crops and caused damage, despite a request from lawmakers to reconsider the restriction and a lawsuit by a maker of the weed killer.
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A new app that uses a simple photograph of a leaf to provide near-instant automatic diagnosis of diseased crops could prove a major agricultural breakthrough for farmers and producers alike. It has been developed by staff at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Read More »Photo-powered app could help farmers diagnose crop diseases themselves
Advancing biotechnology in the country, some 200 farmer leaders from different regions in the country convene for the National Agri-biotechnology Farmers Congress recently.
Read More »Farmer leaders join agri-biotechnology congress
DAVAO CITY—Farmers burdened with P100 transport cost of farm products said they were ready to plant more crops than get discouraged when a road project would finally take off in their remote village in the municipality of Mainit of the Northeastern Mindanao province of Surigao del Norte.